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Klamath Falls
Aug. 6, 1932
The river below the town is filled with willows. About 25 black-crowned Night Herons, several great blue herons, about 100 pelicans, and a few cormorants & ducks were seen. One family of 4 little yellowish ducklings had just hatched. They may have been Redheads but the female was not in sight.
Going up the lake about 500-600 white pelicans were seen with dinosaurs scattered all over the lake. About 2000 Western Grebes were along the shore from one end of the lake to the other. Farallon Cormorants & Calif. Gulls were present in limited numbers.
Everyone in Klamath Falls whom I interviewed said there were more pelicans on the lake this year than ever before. They estimated "many thousands."
Mr. Barnes, of the Oregon game commission, was interviewed. He said that thousands of pelicans nest in Clear Lake, Calif. That he thinks all the Lower Klamath pelicans nest there now. He advised me not to go to Clear Lakes because everything was gone now.